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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Bath and North East Somerset Council. Also known as B&NES, BathNES and BANES.Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Bath and North East Somerset website
60,822 approved · 8,335 refused · 5,629 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 19 Sept 2001 to 29 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 3 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
6 Bath Street, City Centre, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 1SA
Received 4 May 2023Eastern House , Beechen Cliff Road, Bear Flat, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4QS
Received 4 May 2023Bramley Cottage , Publow Lane, Woollard, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS39 4HY
Received 4 May 2023Limberlost , Tadwick Lane, Swainswick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 8BU
Received 5 May 202329 Grove Wood Road, Haydon, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 3QY
Received 5 May 202385 The Mead, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1FE
Received 5 May 20236 Cleevedale Road, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5QS
Received 5 May 2023Part Of Parcel 5520, Coley Narrow, Coley, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 5 May 20232 Pera Place, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NX
Received 5 May 202312 Walcot Parade, Walcot, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 5NF
Received 5 May 2023The Surgery , Dark Lane, Freshford, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 7TT
Received 5 May 2023Kelston Knoll , Kelston Road, Kelston, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA1 9AD
Received 5 May 202312 Lyndhurst Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1RQ
Received 8 May 2023138 Bath Road, Keynsham, Bristol, Bath And North East Somerset, BS31 1TA
Received 8 May 20233 The Dymboro, Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Bath And North East Somerset, BA3 2QU
Received 9 May 2023Honeysuckle Cottage , Bull's Hill, Wellow, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 8QS
Received 9 May 20235 The Brow, Combe Down, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5JL
Received 8 May 2023Brookdene , Lyncombe Vale Road, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4LS
Received 8 May 2023Part Of Former Railway Used As Car Park, Windsor Bridge Road, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset,
Received 9 May 202314 Stuart Place, Twerton, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 3RQ
Received 9 May 2023Flat 1, 21 Great Pulteney Street, Bathwick, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 4BU
Received 9 May 2023Bloomfield House, 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 9 May 2023Bloomfield House, 146 Bloomfield Road, Bloomfield, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 2AS
Received 9 May 2023Lych Gate , Perrymead, Lyncombe, Bath, Bath And North East Somerset, BA2 5AX
Received 9 May 2023Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Bath and North East Somerset Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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